Engineering project management : a hands-on guide for successful engineering projects /
Neil G. Siegel.
- Second edition.
- xxiv, 440 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Includes index.
The role and the challenge -- Performing engineering on projects (initial portion) -- Performing engineering on projects (concluding portion) -- Understanding your users and your other stakeholders -- How do engineering projects get created? -- Organizing and planning -- Creating credible predictions for schedule and cost: the activity network -- Drawing valid conclusions from numbers -- Risk and opportunity management -- Monitoring the progress of your project (initial portion) -- Monitoring the progress of your project (concluding portion) -- Four special topics -- The social aspects of engineering project management -- Achieving quality -- Applying our ideas in the real world, ethics of engineering.
"Project management incorporates both the people-related and technical requirements necessary for the successful management of engineering projects, as well as the organizational and strategic aspects. Engineering-focused project management centers around the processes that are used to produce, process, and service engineering-based innovation projects from idea through relevant analyses to launch. It also relates innovation to improvements in products, processes, and competitive advantage"--